Without Your Head

Nasty Neal talks with Cassie Workman about her new series Cassie Workman is Witchy AF covering the Occult, Hollywood's portrayal of Satanic mythology and more! CASSIE WORKMAN IS WITCHY AF is an eight-part, weekly, adult comedic documentary series that explores the history and philosophy of occultism and magic. Using puppetry created by Direct Message and practical SFX make-up from Monster in M...

Director Luka Marčetič and star Lara Wolf join Nasty Neal to discuss their new movie GIRL IN THE NIGHT, premiering at Fantastic Fest!  @fantasticfest  “Girl in the Night” follows the aimless life of a lonely kleptomaniac (Urban Kuntarič) takes an unexpected turn for the worse when he steals a bicycle from a mysterious girl (Lara Wolf ) who spends her nights fighting crime. To cut through the munda...

Director Raymond Creamer joins Nasty Neal on Without Your Head to discuss his chilling new Shudder film, GOODY GOODY!Raymond talks about crafting the film’s suffocating atmosphere, blending supernatural horror with unsettling body horror, and turning a long home birth during a raging blizzard into a terrifying fight for survival. He also discusses his love of ghost stories and folklore, working wi...

Anthony Cousins joins Nasty Neal, Terrible Troy and Tara Hutchison to reveal The Kentucky Goblins, his new Christmas found-footage creature feature set within the expanding Frogman Universe! Anthony discusses the film’s Kickstarter campaign, the terrifying Kentucky Goblins legend, practical goblin puppets and transforming a family’s 1989 Christmas home video into a feature-length horror movie. He...

Director David Ferino joins Nasty Neal to discuss ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE, the outrageous new comedy-horror film that brings the beloved cult franchise into a whole new era. David talks about reviving the Killer Tomatoes, balancing horror with absurd comedy, working with the film’s incredible cast, creating the tomato mayhem and honoring the wonderfully weird legacy tha...

Monster maker Lynette Eklund joins Nasty Neal to reveal how she created the unforgettable Buddy suit for the new cult horror sensation BUDDY! Lynette also looks back on her incredible decades-long career working on films including Species, Jurassic Park III, Puppet Master II & III, The Relic, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, 1988’s The Blob, and many more. Discover the artistry behind one of hor...

Real alligators. Practical gore. A murderous cult worshipping an alligator god! Nasty Neal interviews GATOR FACE writer/director Padraig Reynolds and star Tabitha Brownstone about creating this wild new creature horror film in the Florida swamps. Reynolds and Brownstone discuss working with live alligators, bringing Gator Face to life through practical effects, developing the film’s sinister cult...

Nasty Neal is joined by the cast and crew of the new experiemental psycho sexual horror film ELECTRIC MEAT!writer and Director Dan Schaffer"Lush" Nina Courson"the Butcher" Caspian Fayeand "The Landlady" Emily BoothA photographer working a day job as a butcher finds one of his models murdered in an alley and, being comfortable around dead meat, decides to keep her arou...

Writer and director Brando Benetton joins Nasty Neal to discuss his gripping new crime thriller, THE GIRL IN THE RIVER, now playing in select theaters and available digitally. The film opened in select theaters and on digital/VOD on September 4, 2026.After twin teenage sisters are abducted—with one found dead in the Mississippi River and the other still missing—veteran criminologist Alan Kramer is...

Our 2009 interview with the late Victor Miller, the creator of Friday the 13th! R.I.P. #FridayThe13th #WithoutYourHead #HorrorPodcast #VictorMiller

Director Chris Schwab joins Nasty Neal to discuss his haunting new horror film, DRACULA: THE NIGHT AROUND US, following its screening at FrightFest. A disillusioned doctor begins to regain his faith in humanity after forming a connection with a mother and daughter. But their fragile hope is threatened when they are hunted by an evil force that thrives on destruction. Chris Schwab discusses reimagi...

Kurt Deimer joins Nasty Neal to discuss his terrifying new indie horror film, HELLBILLY HOLLOW!Filmed inside the real Hellbilly Hollow haunted attraction in Vincent, Alabama, the movie unleashes a nightmarish carnival filled with elaborate practical set pieces—including Wack-a-Troll, High Striker, Acid Darts and a wild Car Dunk sequence engineered by executive producer and production designer Mike...

What would you risk for the chance to stay in America? Director Yihong Exa Huang and lead actor Forest Lin join Nasty Neal to discuss their new horror short FORTUNE HOUSE—a supernatural immigration fable blending demonic horror, magical realism, dark humor and a deadly game of mahjong. Set in a near-future Los Angeles, Fortune House follows an undocumented Chinese delivery driver who stumbles into...

Writer and director Karen Lam joins Nasty Neal to discuss her apocalyptic horror film ARMAGEDDON ROAD, which played at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival! What happens in Vegas…might end the world. Steve is an ex-con with big dreams who accepts a job chauffeuring a mob boss’ girlfriend for one night. There’s just one horrifying problem: his passenger is dead—and possessed by one of the Four Horseme...

Nasty Neal interviews writer-director Arkar Soe Oo and star Li Li Kyaw Khaing about THE LAST FOOTAGE, Myanmar’s first found-footage horror film, following its premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival! Shot entirely from a first-person perspective, THE LAST FOOTAGE follows a group whose getaway to a remote forest cabin becomes a nightmare when a young boy disappears. A desperate blood r...

Writer/director Angus Silver joins Nasty Neal to talk about his provocative new film INSECTASY, fresh off its premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival! INSECTASY follows Sadie as she struggles to find balance while juggling work, her social life, and an increasingly consuming erotic fascination with insects. Angus Silver discusses the strange and fascinating concept behind the film, br...

Writer/director Harrison Atkins joins Without Your Head to talk about his surreal new indie film SOUR MINNOWS, following its World Premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival. What begins with an inexplicable sight on an empty Los Angeles street sends Ricky spiraling into a reality where memories slip, perception fractures, and a mysterious entity known as “The Yellow Thing” wears people...

Powerman 5000 frontman Spider One and actress Krsy Fox join Nasty Neal to talk BIG BABY, their twisted new meta-slasher where nightmares, filmmaking and murder collide! Writer/director Spider One and Krsy Fox take us inside the making of Big Baby, a new horror film about a writer whose nightmares of a maniac killer in a baby mask inspire his latest script. But when his life begins spiraling out of...

PENNY LANE IS DEAD is now streaming on Shudder! Writer/director Mia-kate Russell and stars Sophia Wright-Mendelsohn and Bailey Spalding join Nasty Neal to talk about the brutal, darkly funny Australian horror film PENNY LANE IS DEAD.Set during a hot summer night in 1986 Australia, Penny Lane is celebrating getting into college with her longtime friends Toni and Amy. But when Penny’s jealous and tr...

Casper Kelly, the director of BUDDY, joins Nasty Neal to talk about his bizarre and unsettling new horror film! With Topher Grace, Patton Oswalt, Clint Howard, Keegan-Michael Key! From the creator of the cult phenomenon Too Many Cooks, BUDDY takes the seemingly innocent world of children's television and turns it into something much more sinister. BUDDY:A brave girl and her friends must escape...

Without Your Head presents Cryptid Night! Video in! Nasty Neal, Terrible Troy, Tara Hutchison and Justin B-Heading hosting Cryptid Night. Covering our favorite Cryptid horror films, real life experiences, debates and more#CryptidNight #Cryptids #CryptidHorror #HorrorMovies #Bigfoot #Mothman #LochNessMonster #Cryptozoology #Paranormal #MonsterMovies #HorrorPodcast #HorrorCommunity #ScaryStories #Ur...

Tim Kasher, acclaimed musician, filmmaker and frontman of CURSIVE, joins Without Your Head Horror Podcast with Nasty Neal to talk about writing and directing the upcoming Dark Sky Films horror film WHO’S WATCHING!Known for his work with Cursive, The Good Life and his acclaimed solo career, Kasher discusses stepping behind the camera for a disturbing story of surveillance, obsession, voyeurism and...

Director Agnieszka Smoczyńska and stars Noomi Rapace & Andrzej Konopka talked HOT SPOT in theaters August 21st!"As a private eye investigates a murder in a future world of sentient A.I., his identity and marriage suffer a hypnotic meltdown."Hosted by Nasty Neal#HotSpot #indieMovie #HorrorFilm #SciFi #Dystopian #noomirapace #NastyNeal

Writer and director Christopher Piñero joins Nasty Neal to talk about his new slasher short film THE PROWLER — and the possibility of expanding the terrifying concept into a feature film!🔪 THE PROWLER is a tense psychological horror experience where shifting perception reveals a far more disturbing truth beneath the surface. Christopher talks about bringing THE PROWLER to life, developing the fil...

Courtney Gains joins us to talk his classic career such as The Children o the Corn, The Burbs the new Barn 3 at festivals now and his upcoming 10-song solo album Liberation Day! Join Nasty Neal, Terrible Troy and Tara Hutchison with the horror icon Courtney Gains!#WithoutyourHead #CourtneyGains #Theburbs #HorrorMovies #ChildrenOfTheCorn #Thebarn3 #nastyNeal